Introducing Kiro, an autonomous development agent, back in July, AWS boasted that the tool can operate for extended periods with context awareness and minimal human input."It’s built to reason, execute, and refine continuously across development and operations," Amazon’s cloud unit said, adding that these new products show how AI is no longer confined to analytics or experimentation.
Well, some more tests might still be a good idea, after all. That’s because, according to Financial Times (FT) sources at Amazon, the autonomous coding assistants were at fault for at least two AWS outages in recent months.
AWS experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, four people familiar with the matter told FT.
The problem isn't machines starting to think like humans, the problem is humans starting to think like machines
The initial move was a human decision. But the problem was that the tool, given the task of changing things around, determined it’d be best to simply "delete and recreate the environment."
And there you have it